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Cherish your planet! (to your level)

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Environment
Book / Booklet
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A book on renaturation that talks about soil, water, plants and small creatures... Keys to taking action on your own scale!

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Presentation

In this guide, you’ll discover three aspects for helping nature: understanding soils, managing water, and welcoming living organisms.
The three topics are separated in our guide for better understanding, but they are actually interconnected.
We’ll guide you through these themes to see how you can take local action to benefit the environment.

Thank you

Proofreading by Claire CARIOU, Et Obst, François DUMAS, Mathieu GONNET (doctoral student in microbiology), Lydie FAVREAU (chemist), Romane PIVETEAU (First year master’s degree in translation and interpretation), Efflam HIRGAIR (First year master’s degree in translation and interpretation). VESS method with the kind permissions of Dr Bruce C Ball (SRUC), Dr Rachel Guimarães (University of Maringá (Brazil) and Dr Paul Hargreaves (SRUC).

VESS

Document

Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS)
Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS). pdf version.
Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS)
Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS). pdf version.

Source

Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS).
Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS). svg version.

SubVESS

Document

Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS.
Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS. pdf version.
Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS.
Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS. pdf version.

Source

Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS
Subsoil Visual Evaluation of Structure, SubVESS. svg version.

Notes

  • Use of the font “Tuffy”

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